I learnt this veppam poo rasam recipe from my MIL. We Indians include this Neem flower rasam in our diet atleast once in a month and mainly during Tamil New year. Telugu people use fresh neem flowers for Ugadi pachadi whereas we Tamilians add it in Raw mango pachadi and make this neem flower rasam for Tamil new year. Slightly bitter in taste but a very healthy & aromatic dish. You can use dried neem flower or fresh neem flowers for this rasam recipe but you need to dry roast it before adding in the rasam as it helps to reduce the bitterness.
My Mil makes this rasam atleast once in a month for its health benefits. Basically Neem flower is an antibiotic and anti inflammatory. It helps to improve digestion, helps liver in detoxification and wards off the skin disorders as it purifies the blood. Hence its recommended to include Neem flowers or leaves in our diet at least once in a month. Please keep in mind over consumption of veppam poo is dangerous as it upsets the stomach and imbalance Vata as per Ayurveda.
Many people make this veppam poo rasam for Tamil new year as Neem helps to improve immunity during the season change and prevents from diseases. This rasam recipe is more like my puli saaru sans neem flower. Ingredients used in this rasam helps to balance the heat and bitter taste of Neem. So keeping these health benefits of Neem flowers in mind, lets see how to make veppam poo rasam recipe for rice. Soon I will add a video in my Youtube channel.
Veppam Poo Rasam Recipe – Neem Flower Rasam Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp Dried Neem flower / Veppam poo
- 1 cup Tamarind extract Soak Big gooseberry size and take extract
- ¼ tsp Turmeric powder
- ½ tsp Jaggery / sugar
- Salt & water – as needed
To Temper
- 1 tbsp Cooking oil / ghee
- ⅛ tsp Fenugreek seeds / Vendhayam Just for flavor. Add very less.
- ½ tsp Mustard seeds
- 1 tsp Urad dal
- 1 tsp Toor dal
- 4 Red chilli Pinch into two
- ¼ tsp Hing / Asafetida
- A Sprig Curry leaves
Instructions
- Dry roast neem flower in a kadai till brown and nice aroma arises. Cool down. Crush it with your hands and powder it. Set aside.
- Soak tamarind in water and extract the juice from it.
- Heat a kadai with oil and add the tempering items one by one.
- Let the mustard seeds splutter. Then add fengreek seeds, urad dal, toor dal, hing.
- Add the pinched red chillies and curry leaves. Roast it for a second.
- Then add the tamarind juice, turmeric powder, jaggery/sugar and salt.
- Check for taste. Add more salt and red chilli if needed.
- Let it boil for sometime. Remove from fire.
- Lastly add the roasted and crushed neem flower. Mix it well. Close with a lid.
- Give a standing time of 30 minutes before serving for best flavor and taste.
- Serve with hot plain rice adding a dollop of ghee !!
Notes
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Try this healthy and tasty Veppam Poo Rasam / Neem flower Rasam Recipe and enjoy its health benefits.
Have heard a lot about neem flower in rasam and pachadi. But never got the flowers to try. The rasam sounds very appetizing and needless to say its healthy too.
Hello Chitra, lovely rasam. You know Best I like about your write up is the clinic. you must be researching high dear :) By the way I used yuor recipe to my bread toast this morning.Thanks for the variety I could use.
have never used neem flower before, new to me, thanks for sharing!
new recipe to me …. nice pictures ……
Yummy and healthy rasam. I too love Neem flower rasam. Thanks for sharing lots of information about Neem.
never heard of neem flower in Rasam .. must try it once
Oh wow healthy and delsih….
Neem is very healthy for you if you can get around the bitter taste… I think you have an unique recipe… Good one.
Neem flower rasam interesting..I love to taste some..
nice recipe…searching neem flowers for a long time
I never knew that we can make a rassam with the neem flowers; interesting recipe!
we use neem flowers only during our New year,ie,UGADI…Rasam with this is surely a healthy one..
Thanks much for sharing the info on neem…good recipe.
Healthy rasam.. My MIL said they would make this for ugadi..
Wat a healthy dish….i miss this, unfortunately we wont get this here..feel like having rite now!
good one..something like this is made during tamil new year too..
Delicious rasam Chitra…looks very comforting..healthy too :)
I never knew we ould make rasom with these flowers.
I remember when mom did aurvedic medicen, she used to take bath with neem leaves boiled in hot water and other remidies.
I never heard the rasam with neem flowers.I just know to use in ugadhi pachadi.When i was childhood every sunday my mom used to do the neem paste .Now i cant.But i will try this.U r giving very valuable information for every food items.Thank u very much.
Oh what a healthy rasam! I dont mind the bitter taste when it is such a nutritious dish!
Wow, Chitra, What a flavorful rasam. My mom used to do it for every Tamil New year.. cherish the memories a lot. I have never tried doing it before:(
Its very true , addition of bitter taste in our food will help us a lot.
Thanks for the recipe.
You are so lucky that you get all the things!, Oh!, now you made think of this!, mmmm the smell of neem flower is indulging my senses…, when i was in india I used to make this often…, Oh! it is sooooo nice…, pictures look mouthwatering….
nice information, great pic, super recipe…
Nice rasam. I am a big fan of rasams and would try this one soon.. :)
Nice blog. Here for the first time. Keep it going. :)
This is very healthy i know but I cant eat though :P
But once in a while its okay to include this :)
thanku all buddies:)
never heard of this rasam! looks gorgeous and yummy Chitra!
Chitra something waiting for you in my blog
Neem is supposed to be very healthy….we mk this too.But somehow the bitter taste kinda makes it weird i feel,however its very nutritious.My mom forces me to have this often:(.Thanks for sharing!
Such a healthy rasam ! Never heard of using veppampoo in rasam, cool !
Oh you remind me of Telugu new yr thats when we make use of neem flowers tooo much!!! simple and a healthy one!!!
New to me. Sounds interesting and healthy too.
Interesting recipe…will it taste too bitter chitra..
@Pooja , not much bitter..It depends on the ratio of tamarind, redchilly u use and how well u roast the neem flower.:)
Few of my bengali friends use to cook tender neem leafs….but neem flower rasam…. hearing for the first time…i am sure it is very good for health.
Glad you liked the huli, Chitra! Thanks for letting me know and the mention. Neem flower rasam sounds great!
I like this recipe. these Veppam poo rasam are sure to taste great and are extremely nutritious as well. I am going to make it for the holidays when my kids will be at home. I'll be sure that what they are eating is healthy. thank you for shearing your post.
Hi Chitra.
Tried today as my mom had dried Neem flowers …It tasted nice not having any bitter taste when had with rice with ghee on it…My 2 year kid had this with pudina thogayal
Glad to know ur kid liked it. Thanks for the feedback. It made my day 😊